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Matt Haig Quote: “If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you.”

351. “If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page.”

352. “It is better to be a sad poem than a blank page.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The sense of being physically empty, of dissolving, of being a ghost whose existence was sourced by electric anxiety. And it became hard to breathe. The air thinned. It took massive concentration just to keep control of my breathing.”

353. “The sense of being physically empty, of dissolving, of being a ghost whose existence was sourced by electric anxiety. And it became hard to breathe. The air thinned. It took massive concentration just to keep control of my breathing.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Travel makes one modest” said Gustave Flaubert. “You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Such a perspective can be liberating. Especially when you have an illness that may on one hand lower self-esteem but on the other intensifies the trivial.”

354. “Travel makes one modest” said Gustave Flaubert. “You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Such a perspective can be liberating. Especially when you have an illness that may on one hand lower self-esteem but on the other intensifies the trivial.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She didn’t need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn’t even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential.”

355. “She didn’t need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn’t even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Human beings, as a rule, simply don’t accept things that don’t fit their worldview.”

356. “Human beings, as a rule, simply don’t accept things that don’t fit their worldview.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard.”

357. “Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness.”

358. “The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Technology won’t save humankind. Humans will.”

359. “Technology won’t save humankind. Humans will.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The hardest question I have ever been asked is: ‘How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?’ The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.”

360. “The hardest question I have ever been asked is: ‘How do I stay alive for other people if I have no one?’ The answer is that you stay alive for other versions of you. For the people you will meet, yes, sure, but also the people you will be.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.”

361. “Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.”

Matt Haig Quote: “He believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.”

362. “He believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation. Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you ‘admit to’, it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.”

363. “Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation. Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you ‘admit to’, it is not something you have to blush about, it is a human experience.”

Matt Haig Quote: “When there is nothing we can do about something, the point of worry begins to diminish. “Everybody dies,” wrote Nora Ephron.” There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day.”

364. “When there is nothing we can do about something, the point of worry begins to diminish. “Everybody dies,” wrote Nora Ephron.” There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Light was everything. Sunshine, windows with the blinds open. Pages with short chapters and lots of white space and Short. Paragraphs. Light was everything. But so, increasingly, were books. I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.”

365. “Light was everything. Sunshine, windows with the blinds open. Pages with short chapters and lots of white space and Short. Paragraphs. Light was everything. But so, increasingly, were books. I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury of happiness. They just want to feel an absence of pain.”

366. “If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury of happiness. They just want to feel an absence of pain.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Reading Schopenhauer when you felt melancholy was like taking off your clothes when you felt cold, but a line of his came back to me.”

367. “Reading Schopenhauer when you felt melancholy was like taking off your clothes when you felt cold, but a line of his came back to me.”

Matt Haig Quote: “He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things “one day at a time,” as if there were another way for days to be experienced.”

368. “He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things “one day at a time,” as if there were another way for days to be experienced.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Never say ‘pull yourself together’ or ‘cheer up’ unless you’re also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.”

369. “Never say ‘pull yourself together’ or ‘cheer up’ unless you’re also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The weird thing about depression is that, even though you might have more suicidal thoughts, the fear of death remains the same.”

370. “The weird thing about depression is that, even though you might have more suicidal thoughts, the fear of death remains the same.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it.”

371. “To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I didn’t go too far before I saw her. She was walking on the other side of the street and she didn’t see me. It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide, they pass right through.”

372. “I didn’t go too far before I saw her. She was walking on the other side of the street and she didn’t see me. It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide, they pass right through.”

Matt Haig Quote: “So every human inhabitant on this freak wonder of a planet shares the same core. I am you and you are me. We are alone, but not alone. We are trapped by time, but also infinite. Made of flesh, but also stars.”

373. “So every human inhabitant on this freak wonder of a planet shares the same core. I am you and you are me. We are alone, but not alone. We are trapped by time, but also infinite. Made of flesh, but also stars.”

Matt Haig Quote: “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment. Live in the breath.”

374. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment. Live in the breath.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There will be other days. And other feelings.”

375. “There will be other days. And other feelings.”

Matt Haig Quote: “And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.”

376. “And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Kindness is a boomerang. You throw it out and you get it back. You had done kind things in the world, and you had been rewarded with kindness in return.”

377. “Kindness is a boomerang. You throw it out and you get it back. You had done kind things in the world, and you had been rewarded with kindness in return.”

Matt Haig Quote: “To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That’s the first elf rule. You can’t see something you don’t believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.”

378. “To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That’s the first elf rule. You can’t see something you don’t believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Yes, there had been a void inside me, but voids were underrated. Voids were empty of love but also pain. Emptiness was not without its advantages. You could move around in emptiness.”

379. “Yes, there had been a void inside me, but voids were underrated. Voids were empty of love but also pain. Emptiness was not without its advantages. You could move around in emptiness.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Let’s just understand this. If we are tired or hungry or hungover, we are likely to be in a bad mood. That bad mood is therefore not really us. To believe in the things we feel at that point is wrong, because those feelings would disappear with food or sleep.”

380. “Let’s just understand this. If we are tired or hungry or hungover, we are likely to be in a bad mood. That bad mood is therefore not really us. To believe in the things we feel at that point is wrong, because those feelings would disappear with food or sleep.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Just as dogs were thwarted wolves, parks were thwarted forests. Humans loved both, possibly because humans were, well, thwarted.”

381. “Just as dogs were thwarted wolves, parks were thwarted forests. Humans loved both, possibly because humans were, well, thwarted.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I’ve never had a coconut chilli Martini before,′ I tell him. ‘That’s the thing with getting older. You run out of new things to try.’ ‘Oh, I don’t know,’ he says, still the optimist. ‘I have lived beside one ocean or another most of my life and I have yet to see the same wave twice. It’s the mana, you see. It’s everywhere. It’s never still. It keeps the world new. The whole planet is a coconut chilli Martini.”

382. “I’ve never had a coconut chilli Martini before,′ I tell him. ‘That’s the thing with getting older. You run out of new things to try.’ ‘Oh, I don’t know,’ he says, still the optimist. ‘I have lived beside one ocean or another most of my life and I have yet to see the same wave twice. It’s the mana, you see. It’s everywhere. It’s never still. It keeps the world new. The whole planet is a coconut chilli Martini.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.”

383. “The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The more you research the science of depression, the more you realise it is still more characterised by what we don’t know than what we do. It is 90 per cent mystery.”

384. “The more you research the science of depression, the more you realise it is still more characterised by what we don’t know than what we do. It is 90 per cent mystery.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Sentimentality is another human flaw. A distortion. Another twisted by-product of love, serving no rational purpose. And yet, there was a force behind it as authentic as any other.”

385. “Sentimentality is another human flaw. A distortion. Another twisted by-product of love, serving no rational purpose. And yet, there was a force behind it as authentic as any other.”

Matt Haig Quote: “She would see, for instance, her mother touch my hand and say, ‘If there is such a thing as good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.’ Or, on questioning why she looked so sad, she would remark, ‘My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.’ ‘That’s Montaigne, isn’t it?”

386. “She would see, for instance, her mother touch my hand and say, ‘If there is such a thing as good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.’ Or, on questioning why she looked so sad, she would remark, ‘My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.’ ‘That’s Montaigne, isn’t it?”

Matt Haig Quote: “A kiss,′ she said, ’is like music. It stops time...”

387. “A kiss,′ she said, ’is like music. It stops time...”

Matt Haig Quote: “Be nice to other people. At the universal level, they are you.”

388. “Be nice to other people. At the universal level, they are you.”

Matt Haig Quote: “On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.”

389. “On Earth, incidentally, civilization is the result of a group of humans coming together and suppressing their instincts.”

Matt Haig Quote: “I have carefully calculated that the pain of me living as the bloody disaster that is myself is greater than the pain anyone else will feel if I were to die.”

390. “I have carefully calculated that the pain of me living as the bloody disaster that is myself is greater than the pain anyone else will feel if I were to die.”

Matt Haig Quote: “No one is ever completely right about anything. Anywhere.”

391. “No one is ever completely right about anything. Anywhere.”

Matt Haig Quote: “So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn’t stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to himself that, when he grew older, he’d try to be like his mother. Colourful, and happy and kind and full of joy.”

392. “So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn’t stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to himself that, when he grew older, he’d try to be like his mother. Colourful, and happy and kind and full of joy.”

Matt Haig Quote: “Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The third option, I suppose, is that you write a book.”

393. “Willie Nelson once said that sometimes, you have to either write a song or you kick your foot through a window. The third option, I suppose, is that you write a book.”

Matt Haig Quote: “An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.”

394. “An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.”

Matt Haig Quote: “We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mess of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we keep trying to separate ourselves from the universe we live in, to give ourselves a meaning above that of a tree or a rock or a cat or a turtle.”

395. “We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mess of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we keep trying to separate ourselves from the universe we live in, to give ourselves a meaning above that of a tree or a rock or a cat or a turtle.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn’t this objective unchangeable thing called “The World.” No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds.”

396. “The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn’t this objective unchangeable thing called “The World.” No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds.”

Matt Haig Quote: “There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.”

397. “There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.”

Matt Haig Quote: “No drug in the universe will make you feel better, at the deepest level, than being kind to other people.”

398. “No drug in the universe will make you feel better, at the deepest level, than being kind to other people.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The world is real, but your world is subjective. Changing your perspective changes your planet.”

399. “The world is real, but your world is subjective. Changing your perspective changes your planet.”

Matt Haig Quote: “The problem is not that the world is a mess, but that we expect it to be otherwise.”

400. “The problem is not that the world is a mess, but that we expect it to be otherwise.”

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